China’s bid to tame a ‘rogue’ river

Indian intelligence businesses stated on News18 channel that the dam deliberate by China was “a weapon with out artillery”, including that the “development will probably be harmful and can affect geology as a result of drilling will hit tectonic plates, which might trigger earthquakes”. The official announcement brought about consternation in each Arunachal Pradesh (claimed by China as a part of Tibet) and Assam.

Assam Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi stated, “Ten years in the past, in Parliament, I had raised [this] pressing difficulty… I had additionally highlighted that, as per world conference, China can declare larger proper of entry to the Brahmaputra. A decade later, it seems the issues weren’t taken severely.”

Fellow Assam Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi recalled an inter-ministerial group anticipating the disaster in 2012 and recommending a Brahmaputra River Basin Board. Each Gogoi and Bordoloi level out that within the absence of a water-sharing treaty between China and India, we’re in a susceptible place. Bordoloi feels it’s nonetheless not too late to represent a physique with different lower-riparian nations like Bhutan and Bangladesh as members. Such a gaggle, he argues, would have the ability to draw worldwide consideration and put strain on China.

Talking to the Voice of America, Srikanth Kondapalli, professor of Chinese language Research at Jawaharlal Nehru College, stated, “China acts unilaterally on points associated to trans-boundary rivers that originate of their territory,” including that questions come up a couple of dam being inbuilt such a contested and fragile space.

“The area proposed… is very vulnerable to landslides and is situated on a geological fault line that intersects the Yarlung Zangbo,” stated Y. Nithiyanandam, head of the Geospatial Analysis Programme on the Takshashila Establishment in Bengaluru.